SS Vocabulary
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- Martin Luther
- a German theologian, born in A.D. 1483, who was a leader of the Reformation and taught salvation through faith in God rather than through good deeds
- convert
- to persuade a person to adopt a new religion or belief
- Westphalia
- Recognized the permanent division of Western Europe into Catholic and Protestant nations in 1648
- Inquisition
- a court established by the Roman Catholic Church in A.D. 1542 to investigate people who may have strayed from the Roman Catholic faith and to strengthen the power of the Church
- Great Schism
- a division in the Roman Catholic Church from A.D. 1378 until 1417, which occured when the Church's two centers of power, Avignon and Rome, split and elected different popes
- Protestant
- a member of a Christian group the broke with the Roman Catholic Church during or after the 16th Century
- Jesuit
- a member of the society of Jesus, a religious order founded in the early A.D. 1530s by St. Ignatius of Loyloa
- covenant
- a binding agreement
- John Calvin
- a leader of the Protestant and Reformation who lived from A.D. 1509 to 1564 and emphasized the doctrine of predestination
- Predestination
- the doctire that God chooses people for salvation and damnation before they are born and that individuals have no power to change God's will
- indulgence
- a pardon for sin granted by the Roman Catholic Church, allowing a person to avoid punishment by God in the afterlife
- federalism
- the sharing of power between an organization or government and its members
- missionary
- a person who travels to a forgien country in order to do religious work
- St. Ignatius of Loyola
- a Spainard who founded the religious order of Jesuits in the early A.D. 1530s
- Reformation
- a movement of opposition to the Roman Catholic Church, beginning in the 16th Century